Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now?

Re:Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? by DrStalker on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:12PM (#8051179)

I keep my inbox empty so I don't have to spend mental energy going over the same messages every time I look at my inbox; mail should be read and then deleted, moved to "Action required" or moved to the archive.

My "Action Required" folder has a few dozen things that need a followup and my archived mail folder is just short of 30k.

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Re:Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? by hexleo on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:49PM (#8051270)

I don't agree with you. Unless your mail volume is too small. In my work, sometimes I need to search some important mails long before. You read a message and it's not important in the current, you delete it, but someday you found this message can help you and you can't find it. You will crazy. Because it happened to me.

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Re:Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? by jimktrains2 on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:16PM (#8051332)

He never said he deletes messages, just that they aren't in his inbox.

I archive things I may want to search later, and star and leave in my inbox things I need to do later. Once they are done, they get archived. Often the inbox has no emails, but my account has 6k+

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Re:Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? by kennu on Friday July 18, 2014 @05:59AM (#8052329)

I started doing exactly the same thing about a year ago and I'm very happy about it. I immediately click either "Archive" or "Trash" on all messages that don't need a response, so I currently only have 7 emails in my inbox waiting for action. It's mentally quite relaxing.

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Re:Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now? by dr_ick on Thursday July 17, 2014 @11:30PM (#8051531)

Ah, a fellow GTD'er :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

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